The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-11-29

How often in reaching out for the great
things in life we fail 10 appreciate small
things, most especially the comforts that sur
yound us. We may not have the Injuries
that or neighhors possess and we may need
many little articles that would add to the hap
piness and comfort OF our household, but every
woman that possesses Il rocking chair is
blessed it is truly her comfort of comforts"
Some one has said .heaven's last and best gift
10 man was woman, and mans best gift to
woman was the rocking chair 1t is rest for
the weary woman; she rocks her troubles
away as the swinging boughs cast off the dust;
it is solace in hours of sorrow. Even q
creaking rocker that driyeth men mad as the
ceaseless words of a contentious woman
i'speak comfortably to her." the rocker fills
up all social gaps; if there is no one with
whom she may talk, she rocks; if she has
company, she rocks and talks. She rocks and
Bews; she rocks and lInitS; she rocks and does
things that man can only accomplish under
conditions of motionless death-hke stiffness.
How true this is, what woman will not per-
ceive the force of these sentiments and feel
their applicability. What household is there
that has not an ''old arm chair around which
has clustered heart full of sweet memories;
q rocking chair that was once the personal
property Of some loved one, that sat in some
particular spot Or corner, and hence brings up
recollections OF some member of your house
hold long since 'lost to the sight, but to
memory { sar." III my own home there is an
sold arm chair that prize more than all the
others; it may look out of place among
those of more modern shape, and when friends
come who DO not know its history, and
wonder why such an old-fashioned piece of fur
niture is given conspicuous place, I need
only say: "lt was my mothers CHAIR and the
wonder ceases, and none can dare to chide me
for loving The Old Arm Chair Many
many years have passed since the dear one
rested in the old arm chair, but time can
mover obiiterate the picture indelibly photo
graphed upon the heart and memory. 1 often
fancy l see the sweet, gentle face and loved
form as it rested after the days work was
over, and we gathered in the quiet Of the twi-
light around her chair. Precious old chair, it
is all that is left, with its sweet memories.
would not exchange it for one of modern beau
ty-nay, gold could not buy my old-fashioned
chair. Apart from these mementoes of the
past, how dear are our especial rocking chairs !;
what comfort they give us; how sweet are the
thoughts that come trooping through our
minds as we rock our little ones to sleep; how
often one little rocking clair serves the pur-
pose of rocking a whole family, and as each
little one comes on and the mother gently
rocks it on her breast her thoughts revert to
the babyhood of each little darling and of the
ambitions, and plans, and air castles that hay Q
been built in this same little rocking chair.
Blessed comfort is our rocking chair. 1t is
claimed that only lazy people love them. Then
j fear many Of us are lazy. have one other
chair very dear to me, the one dearer to me
than all others, given with the thought only
of my comfort, and oh what comfort it is,
and how sweet, when all alone Sin the gloam-
ing,'' to rock back and forth, and send loving
thoughts to the giyer, who often is so far away.
There should be monument as high as the
skies erected over the man who invented. rock
ing chairs.